How common is the surname Breit?

1,302 people in the United States had the surname Breit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,132 Americans. It ranked 20,408th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Breit?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Breit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Breit getting more or less common?

More common. 1,234 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,302 in 2010, up 5.5%.

The surname Breit

A place surname, carried by 1,302 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Breit is more common than 87.4% of them.

Origin

From the German topographic surname for someone living near a wide brook, from breit (“wide, broad”).

Breit is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,302 people named Breit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 237,132 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,234.

#20,408

rank among US surnames

1,302

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.5%

change since 2000 (was #20,099)

Who is named Breit

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Breit identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Breit

Breit has the Soundex code B630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B630.

Questions

Where does the surname Breit come from?: From the German topographic surname for someone living near a wide brook, from breit (“wide, broad”).
How common is the surname Breit?: 1,302 people in the United States had the surname Breit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,132 Americans. It ranked 20,408th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Breit?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Breit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Breit?: Breit is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Breit getting more or less common?: More common. 1,234 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,302 in 2010, up 5.5%.